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Show Soil Conservation Districts Announce Conference Series District supervisor conferences arc being held throughout the state this week, according to Lvle L. Young, chairman of the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District. These conferences are being sponsored by the Utah State Soil Conservation Committee, Com-mittee, under the chairmanship of Vernal A. Bergeson, to discuss supervisors' problems in administering admin-istering the soil conservation district dis-trict program. Members of the Uintah Basin District will attend the conference in Price. Utah, February 2, along with representatives represen-tatives from the San Juan county coun-ty District, the South Emery, Grand River, Price River, Huntington Hunt-ington and Green River Districts. "This year we hope to make a ' pood showing in getting conservation conser-vation on the land," said Mr. Young. "We already have on-hand on-hand approximately 200 cooperative cooper-ative agreements with farmers, ranchers, and canal companies which call for conservation jobs to be done this year, and we intend in-tend to give them first priority on our resources in carrying out these jobs. "Some of the principal conservation conser-vation measures being applied , this year on irrigated land are land leveling, relocation of irrigation irri-gation ditches, installation of headgates, checks, siphons, 'diversions, 'di-versions, flumes, and measuring devices, seeding of irirgated pastures, pas-tures, and planting of windbreaks.. wind-breaks.. On the range land, ranchers are planning clearing of brush and resceding, development develop-ment of stock-water ponds and springs, and considerable fencing. fenc-ing. "Soil conservation specialists are made available to the district by the Soil Conservation Service, j Offices are located in Roosevelt, J Vernal, and Duchesne. The Soil Conservation Service is outstanding outstand-ing among federal agencies in its willingness to cooperate. Its research is coordinated with that; of the Slates. Its technical assistance as-sistance is given exclusively through locally organized, locally local-ly controlled soil conservation districts and then only at the invitation of the board of supervisors. super-visors. We are fortunate to have the services of such an agency available to the land users of the Basin, and we hope to have the I support of farmers and stockmen ,in making the best possible use of them." |